AllRespect.com // Tom Morello "amused" by GOP VP candidate's love of Rage Against the Machine

Posted on 2012-08-21 03:00:11
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Source: http://www.punknews.org/article/48568/tom-morello-amused-by-gop-vp-candidates-love-of-rage-against-the-machine

Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine has written a op-ed responding to recently announced Republican Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan and his avowed love of Rage. The right wing candidate and tea party darling was outed as a fan in a recent New York Times piece which said:

The nation's first Generation X vice-presidential candidate, he is an avowed proponent of free markets whose family has interests in oil leases. But he counts Rage Against the Machine, which sings about the greed of oil companies and whose Web site praises the anti-corporate Occupy Wall Street movement, among his favorite bands.

Morello responded:

Ryan's love of [my band] is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades. He can like whatever bands he wants, but his guiding vision of shifting revenue more radically to the one percent is antithetical to the message of Rage. I wonder what Ryan's favorite Rage song is? Is it the one where we condemn the genocide of Native Americans? The one lambasting American imperialism? Our cover of "Fuck the Police"? Or is it the one where we call on the people to seize the means of production? So many excellent choices to jam out to at Young Republican meetings!

I clearly see that Ryan has a whole lotta "rage" in him: A rage against women, a rage against immigrants, a rage against workers, a rage against gays, a rage against the poor, a rage against the environment. Basically the only thing he's not raging against is the privileged elite he's groveling in front of for campaign contributions.

Check out the full editorial here.

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